January 10, 2005

HECTIC YEAR AHEAD FOR SUPREME COURT MSNBC, Jan. 10 -- The U.S. Supreme Court has returned. Duke law professor Erwin Chemerinsky will argue two cases this spring -- on behalf of a man challenging a Ten Commandments display in Texas and a disgruntled former client of defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran. Full story

ADOPTION NOT BEST WAY TO HELP VICTIMS NOW, EXPERTS SAY USA Today, Jan. 10 -- Adopting children from the tsunami zone won't be a practical prospect for many months, if ever. John Fairbank, co-director of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress at Duke University Medical Center, comments on the drawbacks. Full story --Also, News & Observer: What Is the Right Response? (Duke theologian Stanley Hauerwas) Full story (Israel) Arutz Sheva: Column -- Riding the Wave of Arrogance (Andy Coburn, associate director of the Duke program for the study of developed shorelines) Full story

THE POWER TO UPLIFT Time, Jan. 17 -- Religious people are less stressed and happier than nonbelievers. Dr. Harold Koenig, a co-director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke, is among those trying to explain why. (Links for subscribers; articles e-mailed upon request to eduke@duke.edu.) Full story --Also, Time: The Biology of Joy (Duke psychologist and researcher Laura Richman) Full story

DUKE CELEBRATES FRANKLIN'S WORK (Raleigh) News & Observer, Jan. 10 -- Duke will honor distinguished historian John Hope Franklin on his 90th birthday this month. Full story

JURORS CHOSEN IN ABU GHRAIB ABUSE TRIAL Baltimore Sun, Jan. 8 -- Duke law professor Scott L. Silliman, a former Air Force attorney, considers a defense attorney's plans to argue that a soldier was following orders he thought proper. Full story

EDITORIAL: DUKE'S CHRISTMAS GIFT TO WALLTOWN (Durham) Herald-Sun, Jan. 9 -- A new health clinic made possible by a grant to Duke "will greatly improve access to affordable health care for residents in one of Durham's most impoverished neighborhoods." Full story

KIMERLY RORSCHACH, DIRECTOR, DUKE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART (Raleigh) News & Observer, Jan. 9 -- Director Kimerly Rorschach, an art historian, steers the Nasher Museum of Art toward its Oct. 2 opening at Duke. Full story

ROVING CAMERAMAN MADE KANNAPOLIS A MOVIE STAR Charlotte Observer, Jan. 9 -- Duke's Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library has an itinerant photographer's original documentary in cold storage and is making arrangements for a copy to be shown in Kannapolis, N.C., the subject of the film. Full story

ON THE AIR An interview with Duke sociology professor Gary Gereffi about Wal-Mart and global trade is scheduled to air Tuesday morning at 5 a.m. ET in Detroit on WYUR's "First Light" program (1310 AM). Full story